Early Years
Home Reading Initiative
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Contains information for parents and practitioners about the Bookstart initiative. Bookstart is the UK national books for babies programme.
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Information about authors and book reviews to help parents and practitioners select books.
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Provides support for a multi-agency project which aims to encourage and support parents and carers to share books and stories with their babies. It includes a selection of rhyme cards and other practical resources.
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Provides a number of books reviews. Has a wide range of printable bookplates, which can be glued into children's favourite books.
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Provides book reviews and information which may be useful to share with parents. Contains research in areas such as early language development, parental involvement and family literacy.
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Official Home Reading Initiative website. Encourages parents and carers to share books with their children from a young age. The campaign is initially targeting children aged 0 to 8 years.
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An independent charity which promotes books, reading and writing to people of all ages. This site has a page of useful links to authors' websites. Has a searchable database containing reviews of children's books.
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The National Literacy Trust 'Talk To Your Baby' campaign has produced a downloadable guide to help practitioners to encourage communication between parents/carers and young children through book sharing.